LGP Announces Game Development Team

Ronald Hymer writes "Linuxlookup.com is reporting Linux Game Publishing has announced the Linux Game Development Project team. The eight winners of LGP's game development company initiative were announced last evening and Linuxlookup's very own resident programmer Matt Wilson was granted one of the eight positions on the team. Along with project information, they link submitted code samples along with the team member URL's." See our previous story about this. Hey team: no penguins in your game, okay?

Comments

Weird concept...

[mschoolbus]

Try to make a Linux game that doesn't reek of amateurish game play and graphics for once...

And since they don't seem to have any game ideas

[L0stb0Y]

how about

Duke Penguin
Mortal Linuks
Leisure Suit Linus
Max Penguin
Splinter Server: The M$ add-on

Sorry.

It's one of *those* days.

LosT

What really happened

[arvindn]

Having received only seven applications in all for the post, linuxlookup.com made up the deficit by "granting" the remaining position to one of their own programmers :)

This is like the real world..

[xchino]

This is the true story (true story) of eight unrelated programmers picked to work on a Linux project and have their code made open. This is what happens when programmers stop being nice, and start being real.

Seriously, I could see this as being the next big reality TV series. I have no doubt that there will be some serious "static" between these people. What kind of leadership model is there going ot be? Are they just throwing them together and letting them work it out amongst themselves? I worked on a Linux game with my best friend, and we were at each others throats within a week and had to ditch the project before we killed each other.

Re:This is like the real world..

[Soko]

Seriously, I could see this as being the next big reality TV series.

Please, please $DIETY, make sure there's no TV execs reading this thread. PLEASE!!!! I can see it now...

(Fade in from the final commercial...)

Coder1: OK, so, what happened this week? Who gets voted out of the group?
Coder3: Coder7 totally hosed our CVS tree - he should go...
Coder7: No I didn't! Hey, Linus hisself uses BitKeeper fercryinoutloud...
Coder4: That wasn't as bad to our chances of success as what Coder 5 did. I mean, that robot that could strip any female character naked and then turn her to stone was *lame* in the extreme.
Coder5: Not as bad as your trap door that looked like the gotasex guy.
Coder6: I say Coder2 goes. He's done the unthinkable.
All: ????
Coder6: He ported the whole project to .Net in a day and a half.
Coder1: GAH! Heresy! Coder2 it is!"

Soko

I just want to know

[AndrewNelson]

... how I got labelled an "International Man of Mystery".

Re:Hopefully not Linux versions of...

[revery]

no penguins in your game, okay?
A nice Mech game would be good...

[in a voice similar to Mr. Burns, but with a touch more mad scientist]
Yesss.... a nice Penguin mech game...

--

Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.

Re:And since they don't seem to have any game idea

[revery]

Here's a few more:

Age of Geeks
Balmer's Gates
Ballmer's Gates II: Shadows of Redmond
(Eris S.) Rayman
Solid Snack: Sons of Lethargy

Re:Penguin turds

[liquidsin]

My Slashdot surfing has been Michael-free since 10/04/2002. What a difference it makes!

Erm....this story was posted by Michael...and the comment about a penguin-free game that you're applauding was added by Michael too...